New revelations have indicated that AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor won’t support overclocking which is a first. The chipmaker has allowed overclocking across all but the absolute lowest-end processors and motherboards. The decision to block overclocking (if true) will mark a massive change in the company’s policy, something that is going to certainly piss the community off.
It may be not only cannot support overclocking but also cannot use the PBO function.🥲 https://t.co/Sp1vXuSMRa
In addition to this, a source (above) has also claimed that the octa-core Zen 3 processor with 64 MB if stacked L3 cache won’t support Precision Boost Overdrive or PBO either. This feature is essentially the equivalent of automated all-core overclocking which improves performance in heavily threaded workloads such as rendering, encoding, file compression, and video editing.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D, as per AMD’s official specs doesn’t seem to support overclocking or the Ryzen Master Utility for now. This means the finer-grained functions of existing Zen processors won’t be available on the 3D stacked chip. This is most likely a complication of the 3D stacked L3 cache which is also a first for the industry and has forced the chipmaker to reduce the boost clock of the processor.
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